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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867 KYR-0001-004-0048 BR8-75 to BR8-76

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Thomas Elliott Bramlette (KY governor 1863-67, atty, D.A., col 3rd KY Inf) N001000 1817-01-03 1875-01-12 Categories: People

Twenty-third governor of Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Cumberland County, Kentucky, native. Married to Sallie Travis Bramlette in September 1837. Father of James T. Bramlette, William L. Bramlette, Eugene Bramlette, and Corrina Bell Bramlette. Practiced law in Clinton County, Kentucky, and Columbia, Kentucky. Represented Cumberland and Clinton counties in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1841 to 1843. Commonwealth's attorney of the 8th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1848 to 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in 1850. Circuit judge of the 6th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1856 to 1861. Owned nine enslaved persons in 1860. Served as colonel of the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from 1861 to 1862. District attorney of the United States District Court for Kentucky in 1863. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 1, 1863, to September 3, 1867. Owned law firm of Bramlette & Van Winkle in partnership with Ephraim L. Van Winkle.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 181A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 335 (p. 2 of 2 on microfilm). Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, The Town of Columbia 1st Division, p. 13 (p. 2 of 3 on microfilm). Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 83B. Ross A. Webb, “Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867)” in Lowell H. Harrison, ed., Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 93-97 Lowell H. Harrison, "Bramlette, Thomas Elliott" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 112-13. John Galvin (Louisville, Kentucky, carriage maker) N00006249 1834 1902-05-31 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, carriage maker. Native of England. Married to Anna Fitzgerald Galvin in Louisville on January 21, 1858. Father of Mark Galvin, James Galvin, John Galvin, and Warren Galvin. Carriage maker in Louisville in August 1863.

Relationships Legal: Joseph Clement (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) Legal: Charles Harper (Louisville, Kentucky, carriage trimmer) Social: Stephen Severson (Louisville, Ky, carriage maker) Social: Joseph Enders (Louisville, KY, carriage maker) Social: Edgar Needham (Louisville, Kentucky, tax assessor, marble dealer & notary public) Social: William A. Nally (Louisville, Kentucky, brick maker) Social: Ferdinand D. Stone (Louisville, Kentucky, clerk) Social: John Walton (Louisville, Kentucky, clerk and marble dealer) Social: Isaac Fenn Stone (Louisville, Kentucky, carriage maker) Social: Thomas Shanks (Louisville, Kentucky, brickmason) Social: George W. Griffey (Louisville, Kentucky, street inspector.) Social: P. Darnelli (Louisville, Kentucky) Social: Robert G. Kyle (Louisville, Kentucky, foundryman) Social: Thomas Williams (Louisville, Kentucky, gas fitter) Social: George E. Moody (Louisville, Kentucky, stable keeper) Social: William White (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Social: Thomas C. Wiley (Louisville, Kentucky, painter) Social: William Haas (Louisville, Kentucky, clerk) Social: Thomas G. Waters (Louisville, Kentucky, shoemaker) Social: George Meadows (Louisville, Kentucky, foundryman) Social: Thomas Coleman (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Social: George Doyle (Louisville, Kentucky, marble worker) Social: William A. Ronald (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Social: T. C. Pomeroy (Louisville, Kentucky, real estate agent) Social: John Cawein (Louisville restaurant owner and merchant) Social: George Brobston (Jefferson County, Kentucky, plumber and gas fitter) Social: Caleb Wallace Logan (Jefferson County, KY, attorney & judge) Social: W. N. Crawford (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Social: Clark Bradley (Louisville, Kentucky, carriage maker) Social: Lorenzo D. Pearson (Louisville, Kentucky, undertaker) Social: Francis "Frank" Madden (Jefferson Co, Ky, bookstore owner) Social: R. Buser (Louisville, Kentucky) Social: Ebenezer Frothingham (Louisville, Kentucky, grocer and mustard manufacturer) Social: Nathan White (Louisville, Kentucky, auctioneer) Social: Michael S. Gross (Louisville, Kentucky, street brake) Social: Samuel S. Jones (Louisville, Kentucky, cigar maker and tobacconist) Social: Charles Harper (Louisville, Kentucky, carriage trimmer) Social: James C. Bradley (Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident) Social: Lovell Harrison Rousseau (Louisville, KY, attorney, Col. 5th KY, General Army of Ohio (USA)) Social: William K. Thomas (Jefferson County, Kentucky, jailer) Social: Joseph G. Wilson (Louisville KY attorney)

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville Ward 5, p. 503A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000482708, p. 46 of 440 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com). Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #Film 7007129: Books 9-11, Jefferson County Deaths 1895-1902, p. 222. KYR-0001-004-0047. Charles Harper (Louisville, Kentucky, carriage trimmer) N00006250 1827? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, carriage trimmer. Ohio native. Son of Julia Harper. Carriage trimmer in 1850. Carriage trimmer in Louisville in 1860.

Relationships Social: John Galvin (Louisville, Kentucky, carriage maker) Legal: John Galvin (Louisville, Kentucky, carriage maker)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville Ward 8, p. 444A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville Ward 8, p. 719. William Gatton Reasor (Louisville, KY, attorney, city council, and notary public) N002029 1830? 1870-10-26 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Matilda Goss Reasor in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 1, 1862. Father of William T. Reasor and Catharine L. Reasor. Member of the City Council of Louisville from the 2nd Ward in 1859. Attorney in Louisville from 1860 to 1861. Notary public in Jefferson County in 1861. City attorney of Louisville from 1861 to 1866.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 2, p. 579. Annual Communication of the Mayor, and Reports of Departments, of the City of Louisville, (Louisville: Bradley & Gilbert, 1867), p. 1. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994040, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 291. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819615. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1859, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1859), 308. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 307. KYR-0001-017-0062. Joseph G. Wilson (Louisville KY attorney) N00000783 1833-12-08 1879-06-23 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Son of J. W. Wilson and Elizabeth Wilson. Married to Mary Priscilla Nourse Wilson. Father of Annie J. Wilson. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. County attorney for Jefferson County in 1862.

Relationships Social: John Galvin (Louisville, Kentucky, carriage maker) Social: Charles Harper (Louisville, Kentucky, carriage trimmer) Political: Calvin Fairbank (United States abolitionist)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 466. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, p. 152B. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7007126, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 880. “Death of Mr. Joseph G. Wilson,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), June 24, 1879, p. 4. Find A Grave, "Joseph G. Wilson (1833-1879)," Memorial #109923533, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109923533 (accessed June 13, 2017). Joseph Enders (Louisville, KY, carriage maker) N00006270 1816? 1886? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, carriage maker. Virginia native. Owner of Enders and Severson Carriage Makers in partnership with Stephen Severson. Coach trimmer in Louisville in 1850. Coach maker in Louisville in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, p. 273A Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 9, p. 228A. "All Goes to His Wife," Louisville Courier-Journal, 28 Nov 1891, 12. ProQuest Historical Newspapers. "Stephen Severson Dead. Was for Many Years a Prominent Carriage Manufacturer," Louisville Courier-Journal, 10 Mar 1895, 21, ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. Louisville City Court O001838 1850 Categories: Organizations

Police court with jurisdiction in the city of Louisville, Kentucky. Judge(s): George W. Johnston. City Attorney(s): William G. Reasor, Robert J. Elliott. Clerk(s): Oliver H. Strattan (1861), J. Phillip Tomppert, Jr.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Edwards’ Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville for 1865-6, ed. Edwards, Greenough, & Deved (Louisville: Maxwell & Co., 1866), 155. J. D. Campbell’s Louisville Business Directory for 1864, ed. J. D. Campbell (Louisville: L. A. Civill, Publisher, Bookseller, Printer and Bookbinder, 1864), 70. Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 323-24. Enders and Severson O00006252 1851? 1889? Categories: Organizations

Carriage manufacturing company in Louisville, Kentucky. In operation until 1889. Owners: Joseph Enders and Stephen Severson.

Relationships Economic: Stephen Severson (Louisville, Ky, carriage maker) Economic: Joseph Enders (Louisville, KY, carriage maker)

"Stephen Severson Dead. Was for Many Years a Prominent Carriage Manufacturer," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), March 10, 1895, p. 21. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1863-09-26 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Louisville Ky &gt; Sept 26. 1863 Gov Bramlett Esqr

Frankfort Ky Dear Sir

Enclosed I send you the petition of John Galvin and Many Citizens praying that John Galvin be relieved of the fine imposed upon him by the City Court. I have no interest in this matter beyond that of any other of the citizens who join Galvin in asking the remission of the fine --

I have been interested so far in this case as to ask you to remit this fine because Galvin is a poor,industrious,honestman. Harper may also be poor, but he is dissipated reckless & worthless; and further because this trouble grew out of political toubles between Galvin & Harper, the first a good and stanch Union man and the other a rebel; and be because, as I believe, had it not been for the conduct of Harper the difficulty would have never been --

Mr Reasor the Prosecutor

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petitions for the remission of half the fine, this I take it under all the circumstances surrounding the case is sufficient evidence that Executive clemency should intervene and the whole fine be remitted.

I trust, Governor, that you will remit the whole.

I am respectfuly your Friend

Jos G. Wilson

P. S.

Should you remit the find enclose &c &c to Jos Enders care of Severson & Enders at this city.

J. G. W.